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“Written across histories as seemingly varied as Lithuania’s Jewish Kovno Ghetto and Queer Nation San Francisco, Paper Is White connects them in a very different sort of adventure novel, where remembering someone you love becomes one of the most radical things you can do. Zaid is fierce, a rebel with a cause, and her breathtaking leaps of imagination make new worlds possible."
--Alexander Chee, author of Queen of the Night and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

BEST OF...

  • QUEER JEWISH NARRATIVES-- Jewish Book Council (December 2021)
  • 2019 GOLD MEDAL WINNER-- Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), LGBT+ Fiction
  • 2019 FOREWORD INDIES BOOK OF THE YEAR SILVER MEDAL WINNER  (Foreword Reviews)
  • Long List for Fiction--Northern California Independent Bookseller's Association (NCIBA)
  • "50 Must-Read LGBTQ Fiction Books"--BookRiot
  • "50 of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2018"-- Autostraddle
  • "9 Best LGBT Novels to Look Out for in 2018" --UK Independent
  • "Your Summer Reading List: New Books from Bay Area Authors" --East Bay Express
  • "11 LGBTQ Books to Read During Pride Month"--Off the Shelf
  • "Your Ultimate Gay Girl Reading List"--After Ellen
  • "These 10 New LGBTQ+ Books Are the Perfect Way to Celebrate Pride Month"--PopSugar
  • "Page-Turners for Beach or Pool"--Washington Blade
  • "A Year of Good Reading"--UK Jewish Chronicle
  • "Must-Read February New Releases"-- BookRiot
  • "Your Favorite LGBTQI+ Novels" -- Reddit
  • "9 LGBTQIA+ Books to Read This Summer"--Ronnie's Awesome List

NEWS & Reviews

  • "10 New, Underrated Books that Absolutely Deserve a Spot on Your Bookshelf" --Daily Kos
  • "Interventions: An Interview with Hilary Zaid by Frederick Luis Aldama" --American Book Review
  • "A Conversation Between Amy Feltman & Hilary Zaid"--Jewish Book Council
  • "Sounds of Silence Echo in Generations"-- San Francisco Chronicle
  • "Bridging Queer and Jewish Identities in Debut Novel from East Bay Author"--J. Northern California's Jewish Weekly
  • "The Holocaust and the Dot Com Boom Intertwine in this New Novel"-- Lilith Magazine
  • "Worth the Paper It's Printed On"--Gertude Press
  • "Paper is White by Hilary Zaid"--Lambda Literary
  • "Paper is White"--Jewish Book Council
  • "'Paper Is White' by Hilary Zaid--The Pull of the Past"-- Reviews by Amos Lassen
  • "Hilary Zaid on Writing Habits and Writing Spaces"-- Habit & Space
  • "Oakland Author Launches Novel Set in Rockridge"-- East Bay Times
  • Q & A with Hilary Zaid-- Book Q & A with Deborah Kalb
  • Book Buzz: Paper is White-- Books Is Wonderful
  • Paper is White-- Foreword Reviews
  • "The Weight of Silence, The Weight of Words: An Interview with Hilary Zaid"-- Newfound
  • Interview with Hilary Zaid-- with Elizabeth Andersen, Sandra Moran Book Club, The Tenth Voice, Kansas City Radio KKFI.org
  • "Hilary Zaid's Paper is White Presents a New Perspective on LGBTQ+ Issues"--Gandy Dancer
  • "Visiting author reads from first novel, discusses identity"-- The Lamron (SUNY Geneseo)
  • "JCCSF Hosts Intergenerational Dinner for LGBTs"-- Bay Area Reporter

"Like many others, I have been inundated with writing about the Holocaust and had more or less pushed it to the side... In order to make a book about the Holocaust interesting reading, new approaches must be found in how to deal with it and that is what Hilary Zaid has done here. Her story is inventive and tender and that is just the first of many innovations here. She faces the silences of those who came before her and works her way through them and we are along for the ride." --From "The Pull of the Past" by Amos Lassen

Paper Is White draws you in, word by word, sentence by sentence, until you’re so immersed in its world you can’t stop reading. Exploring the relationship between intimacy and truth-telling, as well as how past secrets complicate present-day commitments, this beautiful novel reveals generations of love.
--Lucy Bledsoe, author of A Thin Bright Line and The Evolution of Love
"Paper is White is a funny, bright novel about the stories we think we need and the stories that turn out to matter more than we could have imagined.
I loved being in Hilary Zaid’s world."
–Ramona Ausubel, author of No One is Here Except All of Us and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty   
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